ALBUM: Bad Bunny - X 100PRE

“I have always wanted to release an album, but I never had the opportunity,” Bad Bunny tells Apple Music of his long-awaited debut LP. “Now I feel completely free as an artist and as a person. I feel good about showing people something different.” The 15 tracks—including his Drake-featuring global smash, “MIA”—have been brewing for a while, but lead single “Solo de Mí” came together just a couple of weeks before the album’s release.

“It was the day I was going into the studio in Miami to listen to all of the songs and see what was missing,” he says. “I went to take a shower and started singing, ‘No me vuelvas…’ I kept going and going: ‘No soy tuyo...solo de mí.’ I rushed out of the shower and didn’t even dry myself off. I just laid down some tones with my voice and said, ‘Give me a click track so I can record in time,’ and I recorded the chorus. Then I took it to [longtime producer] Tainy, and he started to make the beat from scratch. Everything happened really fast.”